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Smoke spews from 2 reactors

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Smoke spews from 2 reactors at stricken Japanese nuclear plant

By the CNN Wire Staff
Spraying the reactor with concrete recalls measures taken to contain the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.
Spraying the reactor with concrete recalls measures taken to contain the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
    NEW: High levels of radioactive substances have been found in seawater
  • NEW: The U.S. military is considering mandatory evacuations in Yokosuka, an official says
  • High levels of radioactive iodine and cesium have been found in milk and spinach
  • WHO says there's no immediate health risk from contaminated food
Tune in to "Piers Morgan Tonight" at 9 ET for the latest on Japan's nuclear plant and "Nance Grace" on HLN for more on the rescue effort in Japan as survivors are still emerging.

Tokyo (CNN) -- What appeared to be smoke was rising Tuesday from two adjacent reactors in the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a nuclear safety official said.

Smoke spewed Monday from the same reactors, setbacks that came despite fervent efforts to prevent the further release of radioactive materials at the stricken facility.

Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said smoke was rising from the plant's No. 2 and No. 3 reactors. It was not immediately clear why.

On Monday, after 6 p.m., white smoke was seen emanating from the facility's No. 2 reactor, according to Nishiyama. About two hours earlier, workers were evacuated from the area around the No. 3 reactor after gray smoke began to rise from the wreckage of its steel-and-concrete housing, which was blown apart by a hydrogen explosion last week.

The No. 3 reactor has been the top priority for authorities trying to contain damage to the plant and stave off a possible meltdown. Its fuel includes a small percentage of plutonium mixed with the uranium in its fuel rods, which experts say could cause more harm than regular uranium fuels in the event of a meltdown.

Nishiyama said there was no evident explosion, spike in radiation or injuries at the No. 3 reactor Monday. The smoke was coming from the building's southeastern side, where the reactor's spent nuclear fuel pool is located, but the origin of the smoke at either reactor was unknown.

The coolant pools contain spent fuel rods that still generate high amounts of heat. Authorities have been working to keep them full to prevent the rods from being exposed. The nuclear agency estimated that, between roughly 9 p.m. Sunday to 4 a.m. Monday, 1,170 tons of water were sprayed on the reactor and its fuel pool.

In Geneva, Switzerland, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned that while signs of improvement at the site are evident, the plant "has been seriously damaged by flood water and is littered with debris."

"The crisis has still not been resolved, and the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains very serious," Yukiya Amano, the director-general of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, told its board of governors Monday after a visit to the site.

"Buildings have been damaged by explosions," he said. "There has, for the most part, been no electric power. Radiation levels are elevated. It is no exaggeration to describe the work of the emergency teams as heroic."

On the other hand, Amano told reporters, rising pressure inside the containment unit at reactor No. 3, a concern from the weekend, was down and power had been restored to some of the reactors.

The plant's owner, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has been working to restore electricity to the damaged plant after it was hit by the massive earthquake and tsunami the struck northern Japan on March 11. The electric company told CNN on Monday that electrical cables had been laid to connect the No. 3 reactor and the neighboring No. 4 reactor with an outside power source.

That meant that power could now be funneled to all six of the plant's reactors for its cooling systems. But electricity was still not moving to units No. 1 through No. 4 because the quake and tsunami had damaged numerous pumps and other gear.

A Tokyo Electric official said spare parts were being brought in so that everything could work again.

The disaster has killed more than 8,900 people and left close to 13,000 missing, many of them killed as a wall of water rushed in following the quake. Ever since, authorities have been working to avert further crisis -- and prevent more deaths -- at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, some 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo.

Those efforts include the possibility of encasing one or more of the reactors in concrete, a last-ditch effort similar to what was done after the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union -- considered the worst nuclear disaster at a plant.

Japan's nuclear agency said Monday that it expected to conduct tests on what it called a "concrete pump engine," which the agency initially said would pump a mix of mortar and water into the No. 4 reactor's spent nuclear fuel pool and containment vessel, the agency said.

But Tokyo Electric said later that the device would be used only to pour water, not the mortar mixture.

In just over two hours on Monday morning alone, 13 fire engines sprayed about 90 tons of water toward that reactor in an attempt to cool it down.

A Tokyo Electric official told CNN that six workers trying to restore electricity to that reactor have been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts of radiation. For reference, an individual in a developed country naturally is exposed to 3 millisieverts of radiation a year -- though Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has reset the exposure level upward to 250 millisieverts for those trying to combat the crisis at the Fukushima plant. That is 2.5 times the previous limit, according to the ministry.

These efforts came as concerns remained high about the impact that already emitted radiation has had on food, water and people within range of the Fukushima facility.

Very small amounts -- far below the level of concern -- of radioactive iodine have been detected in tap water in Tokyo and most prefectures near the plant. The health ministry said levels of radioactive iodine three times greater than the regulated standard were found in drinking water in a village near the plant and asked residents not to drink from the tap, Kyodo News reported Sunday.

High levels of radioactive substances have also been found in seawater near the plant, Tokyo Electric said Tuesday, adding that the results do not represent a threat to human health.

The Japanese government has banned the sale of raw milk from Fukushima Prefecture, where the plant is located, and prohibited the sale of spinach from neighboring Ibaraki Prefecture after finding levels of radioactive iodine and cesium higher than government standards, the country's health ministry reported. And officials in Fukushima halted the distribution of locally grown vegetables outside the prefecture.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the contaminated milk detected in Fukushima Prefecture had not been distributed or sold.

On Saturday, officials said tainted milk was found 30 kilometers (about 18 miles) from the plant, and spinach was collected as far as 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the south, almost halfway to Tokyo. That prompted a statement of concern from the World Health Organization, which said early Monday that the spread of contamination was "more serious" than initially expected.

"It's new and something we're watching," WHO spokesman Peter Cordingley told CNN. But he said the reported levels of radioactivity posed no short-term health risk, and Japanese officials were taking a "very precautionary" stance.

"Nobody is seeing that there's an immediate health problem," Cordingley said.

The latest results accumulated and posted online by Japan's Education, Science and Technology Ministry showed slight but notable upticks in airborne radiation readings around Japan in recent days. But even the highest readings -- .11 millisieverts some 30 kilometers northwest of the plant -- were still considered significantly below what's considered dangerous to humans.

Nevertheless, the USS George Washington pulled out of its port in Yokosuka, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Tokyo, "as a precaution," according to a posting on the ship's Facebook page. The ship will remain off the coast of Japan, the posting said. The U.S. Navy previously repositioned the USS Ronald Reagan after radiation detectors found minute traces of contamination on sailors and equipment.

The U.S. military is also considering the mandatory evacuation of thousands of American troops and their families in Japan out of concern over rising radiation levels, a senior defense official tells CNN.

The official, who did not want to be on the record talking about ongoing deliberations, said the talks have focused exclusively on U.S. troops in Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo. Yokosuka is home to America's largest naval base in Japan.

The United States will start Tuesday to distribute potassium iodide pills to government, military and civilian personnel and their dependants, "out of an abundance of caution," the State Department said Monday. The pills are commonly prescribed to curb the ill effects of radiation exposure.

Nature has helped to minimize airborne exposure since the quake, as winds from the northwest have blown many emissions from the plant out to sea. But the wind direction is expected to change through Wednesday, potentially pushing more of the material to the southwest and over land.

"People are watching," said Akira Shioi, who lives in Kawasaki. "And people have greater concern than ever about the nuclear power plant incident."

CNN's Junko Ogura, Catherine E. Shoichet, Matt Smith and Yoko Wakatsuki contributed to this report

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Double Parking Punishable by Taser

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Jeff Neumann






Double Parking in Brooklyn Punishable by TaserThere are times when taser justice is overkill — rushing a baseball field, riding a bike, being a grouchy granny, and so on. But some blatant violations of the law most certainly do deserve a tasering (sometimes with a macing on top). Violations like double parking your car, as 26-year-old Brooklyn security guard Jonathan Zimmerman did outside of his friend's house last April. From the Daily News:


He says the cop yanked the keys from the ignition and Maced him while he was still strapped in his seat belt. Next Zimmerman felt something "very, very painful," he recalled. He was zapped, pulled out of his car and Tasered two more times, he said.


A doctor later had to remove an inch-long taser prong from his back. All charges against Zimmerman were dropped, and he's now suing the police department.

Well played, NYPD.

[Image via AP]

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War-Crimes Photos Army Apologized For

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John Cook






The War-Crimes Photos the Army Apologized ForThis is Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, posing next to an Afghan civilian he killed in cold blood in January 2010. Morlock is one of five soldiers accused of forming a drug-addled "kill team" to murder Afghan civilians for kicks.

The men allegedly documented their crimes with photos and video, and the German newsweekly Der Spiegel published some of them—which had been closely guarded by prosecutors fearing an Abu Ghraib-level reaction in the Arab world—last night. The Army issued a statement last night apologizing for "the distress these photos cause."

Curiously, no U.S. news outlet appears to have published them. Der Spiegel has kept them behind its paywall. [UPDATE: They've since published them here.] A site called Public Intelligence posted them, but it's down now—the site says it can't handle the traffic generated by interest in the pictures. Al Jazeera English posted a thumbnail image.

The War-Crimes Photos the Army Apologized ForWe got the photos by purchasing Der Spiegel's iPad edition. Here's another posed image.

The War-Crimes Photos the Army Apologized ForAnd another, of two victims posed together.

The War-Crimes Photos the Army Apologized ForAnd here's Morlock and David Bram, another Kill Team member.

Of interest: Morlock, the smiling man pictured above, is from Wasilla, Alaska. His sister April is friendly with Bristol Palin.

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The Army Is Sorry War Crimes Photos

The Army Is Sorry if You Saw Those Photos of War Crimes

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The Army Is Sorry if You Saw Those Photos of War CrimesThe German newspaper Der Spiegel somehow got its hands on photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with a corpse, and published them, and the Army wants you to know it feels really terrible. "Today Der Spiegel published photographs depicting actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States Army," spokesman Col. Thomas Collins said in a statement. "We apologize for the distress these photos cause." The photos apparently depict Cpl. Jeremy Morlock and PFC Andrew Holmes—both charged, along with three others, with killing Afghan civilians—posing with the corpse of an Afghan man named Gul Mudin (Morlock, in his photo, is apparently "smiling as he lifts the head of a corpse by the hair"). Well, no hard feelings, Army! Let's maybe just keep the war crimes to a minimum in the future, okay? [NYDN]
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Prison Full of Sex, Says Author

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Prison Full of Sex, Says Author of Prison-Sex Novel"Sex-starved and promiscuous" female guards are constantly having sex with inmates at Rikers Island, the New York Post reports, based on an interview with former guard Yolanda Dickinson. Who just happens to have written a novel—titled Taboo—"based on the jail's out-of-control sex scene"! How "out of control" is the "sex scene" at Rikers? According to the Post itself: Since 2007, six out of the prison's 3,890 "sex-starved and promiscuous" female officers have lost their jobs over "undue familiarity," though only two were accused of actually having sex with prisoners. Sounds out-of-control! And... sexy. [NYP]



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Ex-priest finishes jail term for abuse

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Ex-priest finishes jail term for abuse

A former Jesuit priest and teacher at Boston College High School was released from prison Friday after serving time for a 2005 conviction on sexual abuse charges, according to the state correction department.

James Talbot, who was 67 when convicted in 2005, left the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater after completing his sentence, said Diane Wiffin, a spokeswoman from the Department of Correction.

Suffolk County prosecutors tried Talbot in 2002 on sexual abuse charges. In 2005, he was sentenced after pleading guilty to raping and sexually assaulting two of his students between 1977 and 1979 and was sentenced to five to seven years.

Prosecutors said Talbot, who coached the school’s wrestling team, encouraged male students on the team to wrestle with him in the locker room wearing little or no clothing. He would then molest or rape his victim, charges said.

The Society of Jesus of New England is in the process of removing Talbot from the clergy, according to a spokeswoman.

“He’s fully restricted from any ministry,’’ said Alice Poltorick, a spokeswoman for the society. “He cannot wear clerical clothing, call himself ‘father’ or ‘reverend,’ or represent himself as a priest.’’

According to Poltorick, Talbot will be living at a facility outside Massachusetts where he will receive treatment.

“He is, with the permission of the Commonwealth, traveling to a facility out of the Commonwealth which will provide appropriate treatment and supervision in a secure and monitored location, where he will live in prayer and penance for his crimes,’’ Poltorick said in an e-mail.

Poltorick said she did not know what facility Talbot was going to or where it is located.

In a phone interview yesterday, Poltorick said the church acknowledges that Talbot’s release could stir up strong emotions in his victims.

“We recognize that the news of his release may be difficult for those who have been harmed by him, and we pray for them and all victims of clergy sexual abuse,’’ Poltorick said.

Sean Teehan can be reached at steehan@globe.com.

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Conspiracy Crank or Captain America?

One ingenious writer has claimed that a Jesuit Freemason member of the Round Table inspired the Bilderberger meetings, where in turn David Rockefeller "broached the idea of a Trilateral Commission."

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Alex Jones: Conspiracy Crank or Captain America?

By Ed Encho
In the alternative media there are few figures more contradictory or controversial than radio host/filmmaker Alex Jones. Jones' attacks on what he defines as the New World Order and the "global Stasi Borg state" have made him into a cult figure to many but there are many interesting contradictions in his message despite it's heart on the sleeve style of patriotism.
Paranoia is just another word for ignorance
-Hunter S. Thompson
Let
me get this out of the way right out of the gate, I am personally very
ambivalent towards the work of talk radio firebrand and documentary
filmmaker Alex Jones. I have followed his work on and off for a good
number of years now and am still not completely sure of what drives him,
who backs him and what his true motivations are. His radio show and
films are a mixture of contradictory ideas that while highly informative
too often rely on standard Bircher style anti-United Nations
conspiracies, illegal alien (translation: Mexican) bashing diatribes,
global warming denial and wild-assed tirades against fluoride in water,
chem.-trails in the sky and pseudo-religious hogwash not to mention the
tolerance of idiotic Birther nonsense. Jones also was one of the
earliest promoters of the Obama 'Joker' minstrel show poster
which he of course denies as being racist despite it's obvious
intention to resonate with a certain black-hating, southern-fried,
white-power element. Too bad, because there is much great information
mixed in as well, a borderline anarchist view of a society that truly
deserves rebelling against and spot on attacks on the loss of civil
liberties that were it not for the inclusion of the aforementioned
dubious material would surely garner the Austin, TX flamethrower one
hell of a lot of crossover appeal. While I am but an armchair
quarterback when it comes to these things, I consider much of the work
of Alex Jones to be cutting-edge and brilliant but just as much to be
counter-productive. I admit that Jones is first and foremost one hell
of a showman, his rants are volcanic and put other hosts to shame. While
pigs like Rush Limbaugh and stone-greedy charlatans like Glenn Beck
fill their diatribes with standard Republican party establishment tripe,
dog whistle terms, cynical glorification of the system that made them
into millionaires, dumb it down for the easily duped cretins and wrap
it all up in a big star, spangled package of pure unadulterated
horseshit, Jones dares to be intellectual in a country that is
increasingly hostile to thinkers. Not that I would compare Alex Jones to
the less than dynamic duo frontmen for the cult of angry white
dittohead dopes, he is far too anti-establishment in his denunciations
of the rapidly closing iron fist that is the American police state,
neocons, the dumbing-down of society, endless war and other things that
are held so dear by the sanctioned propaganda mouthpieces for the
establishment.

Alex
Jones is now becoming more prominent thanks to not only the hosting of
the now infamous interview with America's public enemy number one
Charlie Sheen but also in appearing in the snakepit that is the popular
women's talk show The View
that has an audience of millions. During the appearance, much to the
chagrin of has-been Whoopi Goldberg, never-will be Elizabeth Hasselbeck
and the queen herself Barbara Walters (who looked like she was about to
have an aneurysm) Jones was wonderfully off subject. He defended Sheen but continued to plug his website www.infowars.com
and interject relevant comments about the police state, George W.
Bush's by proxy murder of millions in his illegal wars, WTC7 and the TSA
goons whose state-sanctioned sexual molestation is a brilliant example
of just how far America has fallen. Jones also was featured in a recent Rolling Stone piece by Alexander Zaitchik entitled The Most Paranoid Man in America
which despite the typical corporate media smear tactics, straw men and
innuendo wasn't nearly as vicious as the normally expected knee-capping
of one who dares to ask the forbidden questions. Jones himself
commented on the article during a fairly recent show and while not
praising the piece didn't condemn it either. Of course the article
resorts to the standard mockery and denunciation of crazy "conspiracy
crank" ideas but so it goes in a nation of sheep where the truth is a
horrifying thing that is deserving of shunning and were we living in
either a more primitive or advanced society Jones would have his tongue
cut out by the high priests of the temple.

Jones
can preach it though, like an apocalyptic prophet with doomsday rolling
in, the day of reckoning for the sins of elite, the moneychangers and
the war pimps for which we all will be bathed in the blood tide for, if
not for our own moral shortcomings but for our collective failure to
stop any of it. Launching into darkly funny rants invoking pop culture,
history, political theory, scientific terminology, fire, brimstone and
extrapolation his style isn't for everyone, especially not for the
squeamish or politically correct. The problem with Jones is that he does
want to tie it all together into one gigantic global
conspiracy and that makes him susceptible to being less logical and more
biased in building the case to support his own research and
conclusions. That is why the globalists, right-wing bogeymen like the
deep-pocketed George Soros and the even more reviled Al Gore are such
key pieces in the puzzle that Jones is assembling, their purported
involvement in the use of the carbon taxes to enslave humanity
conveniently ignores real scientific evidence of global warming in favor
of a Koch Brothers friendly plan to keep their energy businesses
running in full profit mode. Jones, while he doesn't overtly use the
Bircher's grand global Communist conspiracy terminology directly often
parrots the language, features far too many Council For National Policy (CNP)
friendly guests and lays off serious criticism of big Texas oil and
energy, the latter possibly being the prudent thing to do if based in
Austin and within easy reach of the Texas mafia.

Not that there isn't a
massive global conspiracy"it's just not a monolithic entity and is far
more attributed to the ongoing evolution of capitalism into the final,
cannibalistic and authoritarian manifestation where a global cabal of
ultra-wealthy elitists will back the fascist corporate takeover of the
entire planet - that is if they don't destroy it first. Capitalism, not
communism or socialism as the Birchers have long and loudly insisted is
the most dangerous system in human history as is evident in 2011 as the
world reaps the whirlwind of rigged markets, neo-liberal destruction of
entire countries and the resultant unrest, genocidal and unstoppable
financial speculation including in commodities such as oil and food that
will combine to starve more people than Mao, Stalin and every other
dictator in history combined. Goldman Sachs will bring down plagues of
misery, famine, pestilence and suffering all in the name of global
finance capitalism. In what has to be one of the grossest obscenities in
contemporary history (and they are legion) the ongoing humanitarian
catastrophe in Japan, a deadly trifecta of earthquakes, tsunami and now
nuclear meltdown are in the American corporate media secondary to how
the mass displacement, death and looming radiation poisoning of tens of
thousands of innocent people will affect the f*cking stock markets. To
his credit Jones has been covering the Japan disaster extensively as of
late and dare I say comes across as very left-wing in his criticism of
the dangers of nuclear power.


Where the Birchers and others on the intellectual (versus the delusional neocon) spectrum of the right get it wrong is that they misinterpret the work of the influential historian Carroll Quigley , especially in the seminal Tragedy and Hope.
In the book, his masterpiece Quigley writes of the behind the scenes
power elite behind the curtain influence of 'round table' groups that
gather in secret and exert their influence over the publicly visible
elements of the state. The Birchers and Cleon Skoussen, who is an idol of Glenn Beck (who pimps Skoussen's manifesto The Five Thousand Year Leap)
get it wrong with Quigley in interpreting the work as referring to
global communism and socialism as the New World Order when in fact the
groups that Quigley wrote about were primarily agents of global finance
capital, the same global bankers that Jones so often condemns. Quigley
himself disputed the interpretation of Tragedy and Hope by Skoussen who
incidentally was an early member of the Council For National Policy.
The problem with these types of analyses is that they too often focus
on the influence of the old Eastern establishment, transnational types,
particularly the Rockefellers, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission
but at the same time pay no mind to the influential role of the
powerful interests that rose out of the western states and the sunbelt,
primarily big energy and defense, the new money. While I agree with them
to some extent about the dangers of the rising police state bent on
human enslavement through debt, global government (although corporate is
conveniently omitted) and in the case of the Rockefellers and the other
big wheels, the creation of a system of control that as Jones and
others extrapolate to include embedded microchips (this is coming folks)
and a taste for eugenics (Hitler got his ideas from the American elite)
and ultimately a massive culling that will lead to the depopulation of
the planet. What I take issue with is the idea that the threat from the
"globalists" pales in comparison to that posed by their U.S.
counterparts, particularly emanating out of the Council For National Policy
and the predominant influence of powerful Evangelical Christians who
have slowly and largely off the radar hijacked the American political
system and to a good extent elements of the military. Not a good thing
when a cancerous anti-Muslim/Islam bent is eating the country from
within as a cancer, when bankrupting wars of imperial conquest are
ongoing in Muslim countries and the crusader mentality is encouraged.
The war of civilizations plays directly into the ideology of tens of
millions of American Evangelicals hellbent on seeing the apocalypse in
their lifetime so that they can be Raptured up to sit at the foot of
God's throne while the rest of us eat each other. This is very scary
stuff and whenever any of it seeps out as to the religious motivations
behind the wars the messenger must instantly be discredited, note the brutal pillorying of Seymour Hersh
over a recent speech when he spoke of JSOC (Joint Special Operations
Command), the Knights of Malta and the deeply entrenched Christian
crusader mentality in the military. But Jones doesn't go there which is
one very serious problem that I have with him, he is not covering the
BIG picture only selective elements, all of which are compatible with
the Council For National Policy agenda.


Zaitchik's Rolling Stone piece references the influence of the John Birch Society on a young Alex Jones:



Home life was intellectual, but not overtly political. "My
parents were careful not to give me political views almost as an
experiment to see what I'd turn into," he says. "The closest thing to a
childhood political training was some neighbors who were members of the
John Birch Society. They'd come over for dinner and I'd be exposed to
those ideas, starting at around age two."
And



The most enduring influence, though, was a 1971 bestseller
he found on his father's bookshelf: None Dare Call It Conspiracy.
Authored by Gary Allen, a spokesman for the John Birch Society, the book
provided the cornerstone for New World Order conspiracies. According to
None Dare, the federal income tax is nothing but a plot by a cabal of
megarich "insiders" who work to suck the middle class dry and transfer
its wealth to the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. As a teenager, Jones
read the book twice. "It's still the easiest-to-read primer to the New
World Order," he says.
Hey, it's not that the Birchers are bad
people; they are for the most part loudly pro-American patriots, they
just have a different view on many things but to ignore the fact that
despite their more outrageous histrionics there is much common ground on
a good many issues of great importance. I have myself on several
occasions worked jointly with the organization on issues of agreement
and unlike say MoveOn.org or other political action groups, I always get
a return letter from my so-called Congressional representatives when
using the JBS activism tools. Like all organizations, they continue to
evolve but their focus on communism as the ultimate menace was and is
wrong and is reflective of the formation of the JBS during the Cold War
era when paranoia first became a virtue in America although of life as
it is post 9/11 . For the record though, the JBS in it's current
incarnation is far more outspoken and progressive on civil liberties
issues than either the Bush or Obama administrations. It is just that
they are misguided and far too overly concerned with the external
threats than those that are internal and have overwhelmed the
traditional, reality-based conservatism of the past.


As for civil liberties this is where
Alex Jones is the most effective, in attacking the vile transformation
of what used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave into
some bastardized version of Oceania, Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany
called The Homeland.There is no more of a passionate and ardent defender
of American civil liberties on air than Alex Jones, and truthfully that
sucks because it is due to problematic and uncompromising stances on
such issues as illegal immigration abortion (Jones is against it),
failing to denounce the Tea Party movement after it had obviously been
infiltrated and compromised by Neocon Republicans, Koch Brothers style
global warming denial and a certain dark xenophobia relating to Mexicans
(he accused Grindhouse spin-off flick Machete director Robert Rodriguez of fomenting a race war)
he would have such crossover appeal that he would become a very
dangerous man to the oligarchy. The one thing that this pathetically
impotent, broken down and busted out lemming colony desperately needs
(absent a functional political system) is a libertarian -
progressive-green alliance that could find enough common ground to pose a
serious and highly motivated threat to the current corrupt system.
Jones, a libertarian who is a huge supporter of the former insurgent
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, a man whose
anti-interventionist, pro-civil liberties, anti-torture, anti-Federal
Reserve and pro-America views make him anathema to the Neocon controlled
GOP has gained much clout with thinking progressives for his principled
stance on what ails America. Paul recently joined with the hated
bogeyman of establishment Democrats, Ralph Nader in an alliance against
the corporate warfare state so there is potential. Were Jones to reign
in his tirades in order to appeal to a wider audience and using his
skills as a showman and filmmaker he would be formidable indeed.


The Rolling Stone piece is
actually about as fair a bit of writing about a guy with the
controversial nature of Alex Jones is going to get in a major American
publication. Certainly not a cowardly knee-capping, the article portrays
Jones' family life as being very normal, he "dotes" on his wife and
children, "cracks jokes with his young staff" and is according to the
author "shockingly sincere" in everything that he says. And the article
makes it a point to emphasize that Jones has no tolerance for racism
(Obama Joker posters and unruly Meskins [sic] aside) and is against the
sort of anti-Semitism that is exemplified in many of the more extreme
elements of the far-right. With any attacks on the Neocons and their
insatiable bloodlust for global hegemony often resulting in knee-jerk
and libelous accusations of anti-Semitism from the normal William
Kristol, Israel Lobby and Alan Dershowitz influenced winged-monkeys it
is important that one be wary of being accused as being nothing more
than a 'Jew hater'. Zaitchik's piece makes a point of mentioning that
Jones' wife is of Jewish descent and I have on occasion when listening
to his show often heard him respond to callers (more than a few so over
the top that they are likely some of those paid actors who read scripts
on radio shows) denouncing Jews in a harsh manner, this is good
currency to have considering the highly coordinated activist presence of
movement conservatives. And as for the ultra-slick, multi-millionaire,
fish-belly white faux populist spokesman for the corrupted beyond
redemption Tea Party that is Glenn Beck, a followup bit on how Beck has stolen from Jones,
changed the message to one of partisan politics and deception and
helped to build a proto-fascist army of American brownshirts who with
the help of the vast right-wing conspiracy network of think tanks, front
groups and local bunds of haters that can be bussed in to any hotspots, like they were to Madison, Wisconsin during the rebellion against Governor Scott Walker.


Zaitchik (and likely the editors) does make more than a few of t he standard tricks and tactics
used to discredit those who dare to ask the forbidden questions as
wingnut 'tin foil hatters'. For instance the sly references to the
diseased little monster Jared Loughner, Loughner is said to have been a
fan of the 9/11 Truth film Loose Change, as if that sort of guilt by
association with a film that dares to examine the American Reichstag
Fire hasn't been now viewed by tens of millions of people who don't go
on kill crazy rampages. Jones is mocked for daring to question the
official story and to ponder whether the Arizona shootings were in fact a
"government mind control operation". There is of course no reference to
the longtime involvement of the CIA and military in mind control experiments such as MKULTRA,
the obsession with trying to create 'Manchurian Candidate' style
assassins (reference the work of a Colonel Thomas Narut found in the out
of print Operation Mind Control
by Walter Bowart), there is one hell of a lot of money that is spent on
mind control and Jones understands that, even if the sheeple don't.
Also the article seems to state that Jones' belief in FEMA camps, total
government tracking and fusion centers is absurd. Of course there is no
mention is given to the ACLU's report on the fusion centers that are hidden in plain sight just about everywhere now, Oliver North's REX 84, Continuity of Government or the existence of these bizarre sort of detention facilities in America.
This stuff is real and people had better get it though whatever may
remain of their television lobotomized brains that they are there for a
reason, and it's not going to be a good reason. Of course such
facilities must be downplayed, the blockbuster episode of TruTv's hit
show Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura
dealing with the fusion centers, detention camps and police state
(which Jones contributed to) was yanked off of the air and flushed down
the memory hole by the an oligarchy hellbent on concealing the truth for
as long as possible while the police state or as Jones refers to it,
"the global, Stasi,Borg state" can be fully completed.


Zaitchik also writes:


To Jones, what matters most
is the "continuity of agenda at the top. When I called Clinton a Wall
Street puppet, they called me a right-wing extremist. When I said the
same about George W. Bush, they called me an anti-war communist. Now
that I'm against Obama for the same reasons, mainline conservatives
embrace me. When I attack the next right-wing 'savior,' they're gonna
call me a communist again."

On the spiritual cancer of
modern capitalism, Jones sounds more like Ralph Nader than a Fox
Business channel libertarian. "Madison Avenue makes us addicts of
consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own
lives," Jones says. "The globalists are smart and tell us sin is fun,
sin is a red- devil cheerleader. No -- sin is cheating other people, it's
sending troops to die in illegal wars, it's keeping people dumb so you
can control, exploit and kill them."
While
in recent years Alex Jones has disproportionally focused his energy on
attacking Obama, who has now proven that he really isn't the second
coming of anything other than the Bushreich, only a smoother, better
packaged version of it (as I write this the teflon-coated bullshit
salesman is preening and prepping for his very own war on Libya) - he
was critical of Bush as well. While some of his newest films The Obama Deception and The Fall of the Republic
are denounced by the pathetic excuse for the left as sinister
propaganda it would be a nice bit of context were an earlier Jones film
also be referenced. In 9/11: The Road to Tyranny there is an extended segment on the Bush Family Nazi history, bizarre ceremonies at Bohemian Grove
, an annual gathering for the elite located in the northern California
forest and covered the Nuremberg style rally in 2004 New York City that
was the Republican Party convention. So Jones does denounce the entire
rotten system despite the earlier mentioned policy omissions, he also
regularly ridicules the idiotic notion that Osama bin Laden and al-CIAda
have become convenient bogeymen to be dragged out to justify every
Draconian assault on civil liberties and war crime committed by the
empire. It was Alex Jones who correctly called the 9/11 'terrorist'
attacks before they took place and on July 25th, 2001 and according to
Zaitchik "became the only radio host in America to begin his September
11th broadcast with a tirade against the U.S. government", now that's
chutzpah!

The Rolling Stone
piece describes an incident from Jones's youth when he realized that
corrupt local police were involved in drug dealing which made a serious
impression on him and would influence his life's work:


It was in high school that Jones discovered a corrupt, Blue Velvet
underbelly to his town. At weekend parties, he watched as off-duty
cops dealt pot, Ecstasy and cocaine to his friends. "A truck would
appear, sometimes with a guy still in uniform inside," Jones recalls.
"Then, on Monday, they'd have D.A.R.E. and drug-test us for football."
Jones, a young var sity lineman, did not appreciate the irony. "I was
like, 'You want to drug-test me, when I know you're selling the stuff?'
I called them the mafia to their face. At the time, I didn't know
anything about CIA drug-dealing."
Things came to a head during Jones'
sophomore year, when he was pulled over while driving without a
license, a six-pack of beer under the passenger seat. Jones told the
cop he was corrupt and had no right to enforce laws. "They brought me
to jail," Jones says. "Afterward, one of the cops told me to wise up,
or they'd frame me and send me away." The following week, his father
was so spooked that he sold his dental practice and moved the family to
Austin. A few months later, Rockwall County's sheriff was indicted on
organized-crime charges.

As
one who regularly researches "conspiracies" and other manifestations of
the deep state it is very easy to become cynical once exposed to the
established patterns of gross amorality, cloak and dagger operations and
raw corruption as is embodied in the global elite but especially in the
ruling oligarchy here in the U.S.A. That being said, once one really gets it
about the way that things truly work, has been exposured to the
darkest aspects of all of the dirty little secrets of how elements of
the U.S. government operate, the sordid alliances with mobsters, drug
dealers, dictators and stone crazy maniacs it takes a certain type to
not openly reject it all as lunacy, that is how successful that the
indoctrination is. It is just way too much of a mindfuck for the average
American to understand such grotesque perversions of the white-picket
fence illusions of virtue and decency. America is always
the good guy, a God kissed land of greatness, opportunity and
righteousness, the global cop and the blessed spreader of that great
myth that is democracy for that is the narrative that they have been
weaned upon since their earliest days of cognition. When the curtain is
pulled back exposing the horrors of imperialist exploitation, big
financial cartel monetary chicanery, arms and drugs trafficking to fund
off the books black operations, the destabilization of legitimate
foreign governments, assassinations, death squads, CIA mind control
experiments, false flag terror attacks, propaganda, mind controlled
assassins, ginned up wars for profit, institutional corruption and a
myriad of other gross transgressions by the powerful against the
powerless is truly understood. When one realizes that conspiracies are
the normal way of doing business then the indoctrination is broken and
the mind freed from it's red, white and blue chains. Not everyone can do
it, it takes courage, an understanding that one will be forever shunned
by those stills staring at the shadows on the wall of the cave and the
fortitude to not give a damn. That is one hell of a big rock to roll in a
society where critical thinking is discourage, conformity is demanded
and those who dare to not fall in line will become pariahs. You see,
once one gets a true glimpse behind the façade of our Potemkin Village
on the primrose path to perdition then it is virtually impossible to
look at anything the same way ever again. That is way too much for a
people mesmerized by falsehoods spewed from the pocket media on their
big screen electronic crackpipes that feed them the steady methadone of
celebrity, reality tv, nonsensical millionaire worship, desensitizing
faux murders on ultra-violent cop worshipping epics, lurid sex, war
glorification, meaningless sports contests, potty humor that
infantilizes the mind and other rot that has replaced reality in 2011.
Simply put, there are alternate realities in post 9/11 America, only one
of which is real and that one is Jones' "global Stasi Borg state"

In
my own opinion, Jones comes across as a true patriot albeit one who
should lay off the caffeine and take a more methodical and reasonable
approach. Rather than try to tie it up in one big long-term global plot
by ruthlessly efficient, eugenics obsessed elite that spans centuries
and is in the final stages of their "Endgame" he should focus with laser
precision on all that has gone so horribly wrong in America and has
flipped the country fascist and about three moves shy of being branded,
yoked and sold to the man. I really prefer to look at how author Peter
Dale Scott describes it in his foreword the 2008 update of his book The War Conspiracy:

"Thus
I looked at these repeated-rule breakings together under the rubric
"war conspiracy," a clumsy term which in retrospect could have been
improved on. At the time I made it clear that I was not pointing to some
single group of guilty plotters, but to a "syndrome" of sustained
collusion and deceit. I likened the process to a "floating crap game",
in which the players (and dealers) change, but not the motive of gain.
This analogy in retrospect seems absurdly linear. I had stumbled, almost
by accident, on a far more pervasive process of subversion of public
order. Today I talk instead of a dominant mindset, one found in various
power centers: the military, intelligence agencies, the media, and even
universities.

No
doubt my analogy of a floating crap game could be characterized as an
example of what Richard Hofstadter called "the conspiratorial mentally
or "paranoid' style -- for which important events in public life are best
understood as the product of hidden, malevolent forces in history. But
what shall we say of those people, usually in privileged stations of the
Establishment, for whom "conspiracy theory", as Murray Rothbard once
observed, is "quite beyond the pale of correct thinking and permissible
discourse?" Is their preference for non-conspiratorial explanations not
really a psychological tendency? "Lone-nutism," the Establishment's
answer to "conspiracism" in the case of the Kennedy assassination, can
be carried to spectacular lengths, as when Allen Dulles in the Warren
Commission applied it to the simultaneous shootings accompanying the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

The
obvious failing of comprehensive conspiracy theories which invoke a
single "invisible government" is their tendency to attribute a wide
spectrum of unrelated events to a single controller or group. Just
consider the list of controllers that various authors have suggested:
the Pinay Circle, the Safari Club, the Round Table, the Bilderberts, the
Knights of Malta, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Jesuits, Skull
and Bones, the Freemasons, the Council on Foreign Relations, Wall
Street, the Trilateral Commission, the American Security Council, the
Mafia, to name only some. One ingenious writer has claimed that a Jesuit
Freemason member of the Round Table inspired the Bilderberger meetings,
where in turn David Rockefeller "broached the idea of a Trilateral
Commission." But even such a synoptic hypothesis will not begin to cover
the disparate evidence of plural hidden forces at work.

What all the aforementioned groups have in common is some degree of connection to what I call the global overworld --
that fraction of the few hundred superrich (whose combined wealth is
estimated by U.N. sources to nearly equal the annual income of the
poorer half of the world's population), and their representatives who
also use wealth to exert political influence.

In the end it all comes down to money and power, when in doubt always refer to the Golden Rule which is that those who have the gold make the rules.
As the system itself which is unsustainable deteriorates by the minute,
the dollar being devalued by a cabal of genocidal fanatics led by Fed
Chairman Ben Bernanke and uncontrollable commodities speculation that is
driving a wave of global insurrection it is imperative for those who
are able to see it for what it is can come together. It may already be
too late to salvage anything, but there is a certain intrinsic value in
the dignity of the fight against that which is unjust. Make no mistake,
the FEMA camps and police state that Alex Jones rails about are real and
they will soon be occupied by those who dare to question the raw
fascism of the new American century. No matter how flawed that his
message may be at times there is no question that Jones is influential,
has a dedicated following and is the antidote to the whores and
charlatans like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck who work for big money in
order to distract, divide and hijack the revolution. It is going to take
a unified effort to fight that which is coming, thanks to the internet
and those who use it to expose the great lies there are millions who
already awake and somewhere in the back of the minds of those who are
not there is a gnawing feeling that things have gone horribly wrong, the
right message with crossover appeal could be the spark that ignites the
powder keg that the oligarchy is sitting upon but time is running out.

Alex Jones is many things to many people, a veritable Rorschach test, but truly what he remains is an enigma.



 






Ed Encho is a free lance writer, activist and consultant who resides in West Central Florida and author of the upcoming "A Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy".
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